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Jessey Howard Allison (1919 - 1944)

PFC Jessey Howard Allison
Born in Louisiana, USAmap
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Died at age 25 in Belgiummap
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Biography

Roll of Honor
PFC Jessey Allison was Killed in Action during World War II.

Jessey was born on December 23, 1919. He was the son of Henry Allison and Mollie Markham Allison. He enlisted in the United States Army on December 14, 1939 [1]and was assigned at Fort Benning, Georgia at the time of the 1940 census. [2]

PFC Allison was assigned to the 75th Infantry Division, which deployed to England in November 1944.[3] The 75th landed in France and pushed through to the Netherlands as part of the Battle of the Bulge campaign. [4] He was a member of the 28th Infantry Regiment of the Division.


"The 75th: The Story of the 75th Infantry Division" is a small booklet covering the history of the 75th Infantry Division. This booklet is one of the series of G.I. Stories published by the Stars & Stripes in Paris in 1944-1945.
This is one of a series of G.I. Stories of the Ground, Air and Service Forces in the European Theater of Operations, issued by the Orientation Branch, Information and Education Division, ETOUSA... Major General Ray E. Porter, commanding the 75th Infantry Division lent his cooperation, and basic material was supplied by his staff.
Ray E. Porter
Major General, Commanding
THE STORY OF THE 75th INFANTRY DIVISION
CHRISTMAS Eve, 1944:
In the biting, stinging cold of the Ardennes, men who never before had seen a German soldier came to grips with the Nazis in a slashing bayonet duel.
These were green troops — fresh from the States — these men of the 75th Infantry Division and they suffered many casualties. But their hold was tenacious. Founded here in this icy battle of life or death was the 75th's tradition: "Always Get There Somehow." And the 75th always has gotten there somehow from this first engagement until the Germans surrendered unconditionally May 8, 1945.
Doughs of the 75th could little more than anticipate war's savage fury when they sailed from New York in November, 1944, en route to the Western Front. Behind them were 18 months of vigorous training — training in the Louisiana Maneuver Area, at Camp Breckinridge, Ky., and at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., where the 75th was activated April 13, 1943. Thirty-five hundred men from the ASTP and the Air Corps replaced a duplicate number of reinforcements who went overseas immediately after maneuvers.
After pausing in Southern Wales for a month, the division boarded LSTs and LCIs for the Channel crossing, debarking at Le Havre and Rouen. First stopover on the Continent was Yvetot, 50 kilometers northeast of Le Havre where rains had made a quagmire of the "sunny" France bivouac area. The 75th was keyed for action and it wasn't disappointed. But instead of traveling 300 long, cold miles for an assignment with Ninth Army, orders suddenly were switched.
The Wehrmacht surprisingly had launched a surging offensive and von Rundstedt was pile-driving the Nazi juggernaut deep into Belgium. The objective was to split the Allied Armies in half, cut communications and push all the way to the Channel.
Time was a crucial factor. Tired Yanks needed assistance, reinforcements. They were to have both. The 75th, fresh and untried, switched its motor columns and trains in First Army's direction and sped more than 250 miles to the rescue. By Dec. 20, the division was in Belgium and the CP set up at Tongres. This was combat area!
Next day, additional orders sent the 75th to the vicinity of Ocquier and the 289th, 290th and 291st Regimental Combat Teams moved into assembly areas a few miles from the advancing Germans. Confusion reigned during the motor march that night; no one knew exactly where the enemy was driving.
Attached to an armored division, the 290th RCT was the first 75th element to make contact with the Germans. The 289th also joined in the battle, hooking up with the 290th near Grandmenil. Together, they smashed ahead to cut and clear the Hotton-Soy road.
On Christmas Day, Co. K, 290th, supported on the flanks by Cos. I and L, made a direct assault on a high hill controlling the approach to Hampteau. Although pinned down by withering machine gun and mortar fire, these units seized enemy positions, thus ending the threat to Hotton. The high water mark of the German drive on Liege had been reached.
At least five panzer and four infantry divisions, the cream of the German Army, were spearheading the Bulge drive towards Liege. The eyes of the world were focused on this geographical point against which the two combat teams threw their might. There could have been no more historic moment for the men of the 75th Division to join battle.
Up to now, the division had been farmed out to other units as support or extra strength. It had fought well but never as a complete team. On Dec. 27, the 75th was attached to the XVIII Airborne Corps and the CP moved to Villers Ste. Gertrude on the northern flank of the Bulge. Within two days, all component parts were back under division control.[5]

Jessey Howard Allison died in battle on December 26, 1944 as his unit participated in skirmishes with German troops. He rests in peace at Plain Dealing Cemetery in Plain Dealing, Louisiana.[6][1]

Jessey was born in 1919. He was the son of Henry Allison and Mollie Markham. He passed away in 1944. [7]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 "United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVS1-1PSB : 17 May 2016), Jessey H Allison, .
  2. "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7LS-RT1 : accessed 19 April 2017), Jessy H Allison, Militia District 1104, Chattahoochee, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 26-5A, sheet 34B, line 63, family , Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 654.
  3. 75th Infantry Division
  4. Battle of the Bulge VII Corps
  5. Story of the 75th Infantry
  6. Find A Grave: Memorial #15887458 with grave photo.
  7. Personal recollection of events witnessed by Barbara (Allison) Allison-Morton as remembered 29 Dec 2017.

See also:

  • "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVQD-9N3 : accessed 19 April 2017), Jerrie H Allison in household of Henry Allison, Police Jury Ward 3, Bossier, Louisiana, United States; citing ED 23, sheet 18B, line 64, family 338, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 607; FHL microfilm 1,820,607.
  • "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XML5-QL3 : accessed 19 April 2017), Howard Allison in household of Henry Allison, Sulphur, Miller, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 23, sheet 8B, line 87, family 167, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 84; FHL microfilm 2,339,819.
  • First-hand information as remembered by Barbara Allison-Morton, Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Note

1940 census - enumerated at Fort Benning, Georgia.
Died at the Battle of the Bulge; 75th infantry division. app for headstone states 75th Division Tank Unit; enlisted 12-14-39




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Allison-4216 and Allison-1572 appear to represent the same person because: same birth, death, parents, siblings
posted by Cari (Ebert) Starosta

Rejected matches › Howard S Allen (abt.1921-)